Yeah, I still don’t really like Black Acid Evil (#5) but I will add Come to Silver on any play list (Although the acoustic version on Lost Tracks is way better) and Satan’s Child (#6:66) but 13 is Solid as fuck!
So, while 5 and 6 has an industrial feel/sound, 7 and 8 is kinda nu-metalish, but I think Danzig pulls it off better, but I will admit 7 and 8 doesn’t have a crazy good stand out track like 5 and 6 do (Come To Silver and 13).
But yeah, man, dust 'em off. They have a different feel to 'em. It’s good to shake shit up.
Damn, Grumpy has shit ordered just about exactly as I do! 2341 is my ranking too. And I think BLC is a fucking masterpiece. 5 is what sent me on a 15 year strike and Deth Red Saboath brought me back, hahahaha. I like 7 quite a bit and would probably rank the full run something like 2, 3, 4, 1, BLC, DRS, 7, 6, Circle of Snakes, 5-Blackacidevil
Oh, shit, yeah, Lost Tracks has some fucking hot shit on it too! And Skeletons is a really mixed bag.
Yeah. I think I my full list would be 2, 3, 4, BLC, 1, DRS, 7, 8, 6, 5.
I think the stand out song for me on 7 is Kiss the Skull
and Black Angel White Angel on 8.
BLC grew on me, but thats really kind of an understatement. I remember not liking the production or the mix or some shit on it, but the more I’ve listened the better it’s gotten and not just gotten better but REALLY gotten better. I don’t notice the production or mix or whatever stupid thing I was saying about it at first. It’s kinda funny but these last 2 Danzig albums I didn’t like right away but the more I listened the better they got. Probably coming in with preconceived notions or something but yeah, I gotta stop expecting and just listen.
I really can’t Listen to Skeletons anymore the production is so bad and the 3 or so songs I liked on it, I just wore out. The sound on Crying in the Rain just grates on me now which sucks cause that was the song I liked the most. Devils Angels, Satan and Rough Boy were the other one’s I liked, and I like to hear Danzig sing the line “My name is Lucifer please take my hand,” in NIB but the rest of the song blows. I don’t know, I was good with those but one day it was like someone flipped a switch and I just couldn’t listen to those anymore.
I think Danzig and Rick Rubin got into a legal fight over the rights of the Lost Tracks catalog so I doubt those two will work together again which is a shame cause I think Rubin Did wonders for Danzig’s sound.
One of the problems is that Danzig’s team is always a bunch of fucking idiots. The songs they always choose for the promo tracks before an album release are always the worst ones and loaded with technical problems. There are a million other reasons they are idiots, but that’s just specific to us being prone to pre-judging an album. When I heard “Devil on Highway 9” on YouTube the first time before the album I was like, “Oh, well, this is gonna suck.” But the album as a whole is fucking sublime and that one almost doesn’t even fit, hahahaha. I learned to like even that track, but the rest of the songs are just fucking majestic. “Pull The Sun”? Holy shit!
Ironically enough, my first Danzig album was “4.” Still a go-to for me, but objectively, 3 is his best work. 2 doesn’t turn me on the way it does everyone else, but it’s by no means a bad album. After 4, the others are… hit-or-miss? Each definitely has a few good songs but they’re by no means cohesive enough to carry the stinkers.
I like “November-Coming-Fire” by Samhain better than any Danzig album. Fight me.
Wow, that is a bold statement! I like samhain fine but i believe it to be a different beast altogether. aside from danzig I which could easily see being a Samhain record, minus all the polish, i dont think Danzig and Samhain projects are even comparable. I think Samhain is my least liked Danzig project. thats not to say i dont like iSamhain, because i do, but i would opt for danzig first, then the misfits, then Samhain. Although Legacy of Brutality has an atmosphere that i think is unrivaled of any of Danzig’s albums/projects. Actually id put it up against any artist’s albums. Maybe Ozzy’s Ultimate Sin might come close but i still give it to Legacy.
I gotta thank Gunnar for turning me on to that album. I had always seen it in record stores but just thought it was a “best of” album based on it’s title, so I never gave it a look. But yeah, it’s easily my favorite Ozzy album.
It’s weird, I don’t understand it, but I don’t really care for Sabbath, but I love Ozzy’s solo career. Didn’t really like the song Ozzy sang for Slash, (Liked the Lita Ford collab, though.) I’m not sure what the difference is, but for me there is a noticeable difference between Ozzy’s solo career and everything else he does, and his solo career just rules everything else he’s done.
“Ultimate Sin” is the best Ozzy (solo) album by far.
So glad y’all dig it.
And the Boris Vallejo (I know literally nothing else about this artist and know his name solely because of the album) cover art is seriously one of the coolest covers ever.
Ha! I had a couple calendars from him back in my college days. He draws big tittied fantasy realm women. I didn’t know he did Ozzy’s cover. that’s kinda cool.
Yeah, he’s really good and I’m sure he was/is a superstar in the Heavy Metal Magazine / barbarian/sci-fi fantasy world. His name is burned in my head because I’ve looked it up so many times. I’d often just guess it was Frank Frazetta and then look it up to cross check, haha.
Both Vallejo and Frazetta do great work but their style is SO limited – big tits, bulging pecs, and dragon’'s necks. That having been said, “Heavy Metal” is a way underrated magazine for lovers of sci-fi and fantasy. Some of the best stuff has appeared in there.
I also love the movie – a guilty pleasure. A friend of mine in college was convinced that the movie was designed to trip out on acid or shrooms to. You take the tab, chill out during the first few segments, feel funny during the part where Harold Ramis does the alien coke, and then by the part with the chick on the dragon? Zang.
Or you could skip the movie and jump through a second floor window because you think you can fly. That would be the, uh, after-school special version of my semi-anecdote.
This is really going off the rails. Happy Gerbits Day, everyone!
Ultimate Sin the best Ozzy solo album???!!! This is blasphemous crazy talk you fucking lunatics!!!
Diary is and always will be my favorite and its not even close…I like Jake E Lee a lot though…but I like the first 2 Badlands albums better than anything he did with Oz…never really dove in to Red Dragon Cartel…
I did see Ozzy on that tour …Yngwie “Unleash the Fookin Fury” Malmsteen opened up…at the long defunct and legendary Hollywood Sportatorium aka The Snortatorium…the good old days…
I saw this tour too. Metallica opened up. I think it’s a period in time piece. Not his best but I dig it and think back to those times…1986 was pretty fucking cool for me.
Diary is a solid album. just doesn’t hold the vibe that Ultimate Sin does for me.
I think the only real ozzy solo album I don’t really care for is No More Tears. the follow up, Ozzmosis, is brilliant though.
I just can’t relate to that but ya know opinions…Randy fuckin Rhoads dude…Randy fuckin Rhoads…I hear Blizzard and Diary and I hear a hungry band just bursting out of the gates…a lot to prove and delivering on it…stellar classic songs with blistering solos…
With Ultimate Sin I hear the bloat setting in…sub par production and Oz trying his hand at hair metal…it has some good songs but for me doesn’t even come close to the glory of the first two metal classics…